Srebrenica widows sue Dutch government

By Mike Corder

Published April 7, 2014 2:47pm ET

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Srebrenica widows sue Dutch government — Women from the Bosnian town of Srebrenica wait for judges to enter a court in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, April 7, 2014. Mothers and widows of men murdered in Europe's worst massacre since World War II are suing the Dutch government for failing to protect their husbands and sons during the 1995 Srebrenica genocide. The civil case starting Monday in the courtroom focuses on the failure of Dutch troops serving as United Nations peacekeepers to protect Muslim men in the protected enclave in eastern Bosnia from rebel Serbs who overran the town and killed some 8,000 men and boys. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong) | Peter Dejong

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government put the safety of its own troops ahead of that of Bosnian Muslims during the Srebrenica massacre, lawyers for relatives of thousands of victims of the 1995 slaughter told a court Monday in a civil suit.

The government rejected that charge and countered that it had no official control of its troops because they were “blue helmets” taking part in a United Nations peacekeeping mission during the Bosnian war.

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